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OK, let me be more clear: The gating factor is FAA clearance, but it's not a delay yet. More specifically: Nominal date for FAA clearance is X. Actual clearan
by beambot 5y ago
OK, let me be more clear: The gating factor is FAA clearance, but it's not a delay yet.
More specifically: Nominal date for FAA clearance is X. Actual clearance will be >X (these agencies are never complete early; it's already been delayed twice). SpaceX readiness date will be <= X. Therefore FAA clearance is the program bottleneck.
- ncmncm 5y agoClaiming to be ready and just waiting on the FAA is good publicity, true or no. We can't tell from the outside.
- beambot 5y agoApparently we'll never know... My comment was entirely too prescient: just today the FAA pushed decision back by another month: https://www.space.com/faa-spacex-starship-review-delayed-march-28 https://www.space.com/faa-spacex-starship-review-delayed-mar...
- simonh 5y ago>SpaceX readiness date will be <= X To be fair to the FAA, I wouldn't bet on that. It's not called Elon Time for nothing.